Wendell Barnhouse is a nationally-known and respected columnist who has spent over 20 years covering collegiate athletics. He has reported from 25 Final Fours and more than three dozen bowl games and has written about the Big 12 and its schools since the conference's beginning. Barnhouse will be updating the Big 12 Insider on happenings and behind-the-scenes information about the conference.

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Challenge is down to the championship final. Texas Tech's Raider Red is facing
South Carolina's Cocky. You can go here to vote. Your Humble Correspondent
urges you to vote for the Big 12 Conference representative; the Southeastern
Conference can't win everything.

And while Psy's "Gangnam
Style" has been played and parodied so much that perhaps it makes you gag, you
gotta admit that Raider Red's reworked version of the song/video is smile-worthy.